Pessimism – There’s No Future In It
August 9th, 2017
I’ve been practicing pessimism lately, but I gave up as I couldn’t see any promise in it.
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Never Mind What Others Think
September 20th, 2018
Even though we don’t realise it when we say we know what someone thinks about something, we are guessing. Even mind-reading – in a fairground or on stage – is trickery.
Yet we often allow our own thoughts and behaviour to be goverened by what we claim someone else will think. Maybe it’s time to review what we ‘know’.
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September 18th, 2018
Getting things done is not half as satisfying as doing things well. This is because we get personal satisfaction from giving something all our attention, doing it to the best of our abilities, being absorbed in it while we are doing it, and looking back with pride at a job well done.
“Enough time” has nothing to do with it, as you’ll see.
At Last!
September 16th, 2018
It seems that the establishment is at last taking mental health seriously.
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